Subject: Related study for your consideration regarding trauma and individual
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Dear Julie,
Thank you for sharing these two research findings. I would like to propose a study
where we both can collaborate in extending your findings regarding military
stressors and military family relationships, and my findings around post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) and life in military personnel, veterans, and families.
This proposed research would conduct a predictive study where we can focus on
the dependent variable of family harmony, and bring several and most relevant
independent variables from our last findings; veterans RAND-36-Item Health
Survey (VR-36), conditions of relationships the child had with each parent, PTSD,
distress intolerance index (DII), anxiety sensitivity index-3 (ASI-3), and
neurocognitive performance. The data can be collected leveraging VA records, the
Neurocognition Deployment Health Study (NDHS), and other needed direct surveys.
Wahyuningsih et al. (2020) conducted a meta-analysis of 23 relevant studies on
the association between parental marital quality and adolescent psychological
well-being finding significant correlations. Although Wahyuningsih et al. (2020)
does not particularly focus on military families their findings are a great reference
and a realization of extending this studies for our military families. Additionally,
Chiu et al. (2022) provided greater insight into the impact of other factors in the
military family lives that can also feed into our study, as well with your articles
findings of positive and negative impact on self-efficacy.
Our family harmony variable will be defined through Likert-scale survey questions
from the 24-item Family Harmony Scale (FHS), (Kavikondala et al., 2016), and we
will use regression analyses, descriptive statistics, and bivariate correlations to
determine any predictivity, degree of relationship and affection from our
independent variables.
Hope you find this proposal valuable to extend our findings and agree in
collaborating in this study.
References
Chiu, C., Gnall, K., Pless Kaiser, A., Taft, C. T., Franz, M. R., Lee, L. O., & Vasterling,
J. J. (2022). Neurocognitive performance predicts future partner violence among
U.S. Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed Army soldiers and veterans. Psychology of
Violence. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000408
Kavikondala, S., Stewart, S. M., Ni, M. Y., Chan, B. H., Lee, P. H., Li, K.-K., McDowell,
I., Johnston, J. M., Chan, S. S., Lam, T. H., Lam, W. W., Fielding, R., & Leung, G. M.
(2016). Structure and validity of family harmony scale: An instrument for
measuring harmony. Psychological Assessment, 28(3), 307–318.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000131
Wahyuningsih, H., Kusumaningrum, F. A., & Novitasari, R. (2020). Parental marital
quality and adolescent psychological well-being: A meta-analysis. Cogent
Psychology, 7(1), 1819005. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2020.1819005
